[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS, FUDS: Spring Valley (DC) journalist dies

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Charlie Bermpohl dies; reported on WWI munitions site in Washington

By Patricia Sullivan
Washington Post
March 15, 2010

Charlie Bermpohl, 74, a Washington reporter whose dogged pursuit of the 
long-running story of buried World War I munitions in the city's 
affluent Spring Valley neighborhood helped alert residents to the 
persistence of toxic chemicals beneath their yards, died of 
complications of throat cancer Feb. 28 at Georgetown University Hospital.

Mr. Bermpohl, a reporter for the Current weekly newspapers, didn't break 
the story; that happened in January 1993, when a construction crew 
digging a trench at the home of the American University president found 
a 75-year-old artillery round.

During the resulting uproar, residents learned that federal analysts had 
warned the Army in 1986 of potential chemical weapons burial sites on 
the AU campus. The Army had withheld news about the analysis from city 
officials and Spring Valley residents, in violation of federal laws and 
military regulations.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/14/AR2010031402669.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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